Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-03
A STRONG DELEGATION.

The great speech delivered by Senator
Ingalls, In Topeka, one night last week, b.
fore an immense audience, upon the struggle
Of Ireland. has won for the distinguished
orator the most enduring fame. The speech
will rank anything ever delivered by an
O'Connell. an Emmet or any other fervent
Irish orator who ever spoke OF the woes OF
Irishmen. While at Topeka one day re
Gently, we heard nothing else but men try
ing to Guido each other in speaking COM
plimentarily Of that speech. The
Commonwealth nominated ingalls,
for the next Republican candidate
for president, and the enthusiasm over 1t
was great. This leads us into thought OF
which perhaps you had not heretofore
noted, to-wit: Kansas stands at the very
front Of the United States senate, with two
statesmen known TO every man, woman
and child in enlightened communities. Re
member, we say two. Ask any body who
they are, and you will be quickly answered
Ingalls, and Plumb Now, take any other
state in the union, and all of them-we
will catechise you a little: New York has
WIN. NJ. Evarts and who is the other!
Pennsy lvania has j. y. Cameron;
who is the other? Massachusetts,
has Geo. F. Hoar; who is the other? Iowa
haf VIM. B. Allison; who is the other?
And SO we might Coon through the entire
list. and we'll guarantee that you cannot
readily answer the names OF both senator's
from each state, and in numerous instances
you do not know even one. But go into
any state in the union and ask who are the
senators, and you do not have to wait un-
til the answer is looked up in the directory.
You are answered at once and with vim.
Every body knows Ingalls, and Plumb, and
where they are from. What splendid
team ingalls,, the brilliant orator.
the unrivalied parliamentarian, the
master chairman who mounts the
presidents chair and drives business with
the same characteristics that ennoble his
speech-terse, crisp, energetic and fault
less. Plumb, the solid. sensible, every
day man, whe, with both hands in his
pockets, can hex all other statesmen at
hard, enduring routine toll, and does do it
every day and hour in the year. Not SO
sparkling nor rhetorical IS his colleague
in speech, yet one of the few who catches
the ear and holds the attention of MEM
bers with whom he serves-a man to whom
they flock for advice and assistance
Let the galleries be empty. and let it be
d tied about that either ingalls, or Plumb
Is going to FAKE speech and every seat
and inch of standing room are occupied be-
fore the cords "Mr. President" have quit
resounding in the great hall. Kansas is
great in everything. but especially masto-
donic in her congressional delegation, both
in the senate and house.
In this connection we wish to state that
the suggestion made by the Common
wealth that it would be eminently |
PROF er for the Kansas delegation to the
national Republican convention to solidly
present the name of Mr. ingalls, as their
candidate for president in 1883. has been
received with almost universal favor |
among the Republican newspapers of the !
state. But two papers, so far as We can
learn have expressed their opposition, and,
as we understood it, that opposition was
not on account of hostility to Mr.. Ingalls,.
but supposed expediency.